
The Formation of the Jewish Canon
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Modern and Ancient Views of the Canon
- 2 The Emergence of the Canon Reconsidered
- 3 The Earliest Canonical Lists and Notices
- 4 The Torah in the Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods
- 5 The Letter of Aristeas and Its Early Interpreters
- 6 The Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira and 2 Maccabees
- 7 The Dead Sea Scrolls and Authoritative Scriptures
- 8 The Holy Books of the Essenes and Therapeutae
- 9 Canon in the Gospels and Pauline Letters
- 10 The Formation of the Jewish Canon
- Appendix 1: Some Modern Canons
- Appendix 2: Early Canonical Lists
- Appendix 3: Bryennios' and Epiphanius' Lists
- Appendix 4: Extra-Canonical Jewish Writings and the Pauline Letters
- Appendix 5: Scriptural References in Sirach 44-50
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index of Subjects
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- Index of Modern Authors
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- Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Sources
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